A license plate whose identifier is chosen by the registering owner, usually to suggest a word or phrase.

(nautical) a cover over a hawsehole, used to keep spray out of the chain locker and prevent deckhands from stepping into the hawsehole.

Alternative spelling of gold plate

To apply gold plate to an object, to plate with gold. / (of projects) To incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.

A thin layer of gold applied to the surface of an object, often by an electrolytic method. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gold, plate.

Alternative form of dinnerplate

A powder used to polish silverware, especially silver plate / A powder used as a denture fixative, for holding a false teeth plate in position.

Alternative form of kickplate

(anatomy) In the human skull, a sieve-like region of the ethmoid bone (which separates the nasal cavity from the brain).

The beginning of the formation of a cell wall that also serves as a means of organization of chromosomes during mitosis in many plant cells.